Stanišić () is šića village in Serbia. It is situated in the Sombor municipality, in the West Bačka District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 4,808 people (2002 census).
Name
In Serbian, the village is known as Stanišić or Станишић, in German as Stanischitsch, Stanischitz, Tannenschütz, Tannischitz, Tanaschitz or Donauwachenheim, in Croatian as Stanišić, in Hungarian as Őrszállás, and in Bunjevac as Stanišić.
Geography
The village of Stanišić is located in the Northwestern part of Serbia in the municipality of Sombor, about 7 miles from the Hungarian border between Riđica, Gakovo, Svetozar Miletić and Aleksa Šantić. It is located just on the edge of the great land-plateau called Telečka (Telečka lesna zaravan) about 91 meters above the sea level. Some minor parts of the village are about 1 meter lower being in the terrain beside the land-plateau.
In the times prior to the 18th and 19th centuries the whole area beside the plateau (towards Kruševlje and Gakovo) was in fens, morasses and swampy meadows, especially in the raining seasons, and thus inconvenient for settling. Stanišić was founded just at the edge of these two landmarks. The lower ground was populated by Serbs in 1763 and the upper by Germans in 1786 and by 1811 both villages were united in one. The surrounding area is a great Pannonian Plate without any hills, woods or rivers. In later periods small, tiny channels and drainages were built beside the village just to take off all the waters from the yards, meadows and gardens in the lower parts of the village.
History
Early period prior to 1763
The earliest recorded settlement on this location was called Örs in Hungarian, and it was mentioned in 1339. Another place, written down as Bathteremlye appears in 1342, and another one named Paris and Paris falu meaning the village of Parish appears in 1366. In 1412, a place named again as Bathteremlye was mentioned as an estate of János Maróti. Actually, there is no historical evidence that these places were in fact the same place, but they are at least proof that this area was inhabited even in the Middle Ages, if not even earlier. There is also some confusion about the exact location of these settlements because the old charts are not precise. But, it is possible that their location was about half a mile or so to the south.
There is also no evidence of any inhabitants in this area. They could have been Hungarians or Serbs, as this area was a part of the multiethnic Kingdom of Hungary from the early 11th Century until 1526, when the Turks conquered it and expelled most of its former population to the north. Parish was not recorded in 1520, but it was mentioned in 1554, 1570 and again in 1578 having 17 Turkish and 9 Serb families. It was registered in 1712 for the last time.
In 1658 this area was written down as puszta, meaning in Hungarian only a wasted, deserted land and belonging to Baron Pál Serényi. As the Turks were defeated and banished from these parts of Pannonian plain in 1687, the new Austrian authorities populated this area with Serbs, Croats (Bunjevci) and Hungarians, but there is again no evidence that Stanišić was settled down. The name of Stanišić (Stanicic) was recorded in 1635 and it was a depopulated place, since in 1598 all Serb population from that area emigrated to Esztergom in Hungary. It is recorded again in 1717 and 1720, but again as puszta. It is possible, that some Serb soldiers of the military border have been living in or near Stanišić between 1720 and 1746. As the military border was abolished in 1746, they moved away and in 1746 Stanišić was called puszta again.
The nearest town was Sombor, about 11 miles to the south, developing as a county center. Some old settlements were repopulated with Serbs, Hungarians and Croats (Bunjevci) after 1690 and in the early 18th century close to today's Stanišić position, such as Sombor, Riđica, Bački Breg, Monoštor, Šari (near Aleksa Šantić), Gara, Dávod, Nagybaracska, Hercegszántó, Katymár, Csátalja, Csávoly, Bácsbokod (Bikity), Bácsborsód, Bácsalmás, Tavankut, Bajmok, Đurić, Đurđin, Rančevo, etc. Other places, which are nearer to Stanišić, were settled later by German colonists, such as Kolut in 1757, Gakovo in 1763–67, Kruševlje in 1765–67 and Svetozar Miletić in 1748–52 by Hungarians and Croats (Bunjevci). Again in 1746 the whole area surrounding today's Stanišić was called puszta and a part of the Trench of Sombor (Somborski šanac) serving just for cattle-pasture. Baron Gyula Redl, who got the pusta Stanišić to its estate, populated it with some 152 Hungarian and Slovak families from the neighbouring villages in 1752.